Stowe Thread

[BenedictGomez]

Anyone tried not paying? What is the penalty?

It's massive at Park City, so I presume it's the same at Stowe. I forget the actual number, but I read it was quite a bit, like $150 or $165 or something.

EDIT: This info came from a PC thread, and a few guys posted that they got tickets at 12:45pm and 12:55pm respectively, so they're enforcing their lot fees right up to the 1pm start of free parking.

 

[urungus]

You want to ski from the Bruce Trail to the XC Center instead of Matterhorn?

We are not the same.

Didn’t realize that was a possibility. How exactly do you ski from the bottom of Bruce to Matterhorn ? And I assume they won’t let you park all day at Matterhorn, so wouldn’t that require taking a shuttle bus back from Matterhorn to wherever you parked in the morning ? Whereas if you parked at the XC center, you could ski down there from Bruce and then drive to Matterhorn on your way home, no waiting for crowded shuttle bus required.

 

[drjeff]

That’s fucking ridiculous.


What time do the money takers show up?

Doesn't matter when they show up, once they arrive, they enter your license plate # into their data base, and if it's not in there, you get a ticket or warning issued

 

[kendo]

Didn’t realize that was a possibility. How exactly do you ski from the bottom of Bruce to Matterhorn ? And I assume they won’t let you park all day at Matterhorn, so wouldn’t that require taking a shuttle bus back from Matterhorn to wherever you parked in the morning ? Whereas if you parked at the XC center, you could ski down there from Bruce and then drive to Matterhorn on your way home, no waiting for crowded shuttle bus required.

here's a trip report on the how to...

Stowe sidecountry & Bruce Trail, VT 21JAN2013

Some of the Northern Vermont ski areas have picked up close to (or in the case of Jay Peak, substantially more than) a foot of snow in the past seven days, and while that’s actually a fairly modest…

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Make sure your skis have a fresh wax.

 

[urungus]

Thanks @kendo that was very helpful

 

[bbrk]

Quite fun off the gondola today.

 

[Zand]

I'm back in town. Cam shows 2" new since they closed and it's dumping

 

[Zand]

It sucks, stay away.

 

[kingslug]

Blows away PC

 

[Zand]

They say 3" but it was closer to 7 I'd say. And it still hasn't stopped. Rope dropped on Upper Liftline and it's probably knee deep. Then duck into the woods at the Haychute and float all the way down. This reminds me of Jackson, except out there the sun would usually come out and mank everything up. Here you get cold pow that sticks around all day.

 

[bbrk]

Clocked in at 7". Fun morning.

 

[Zand]

6+ inches each of the last 4 days, 3 feet in the past week. 81 inches of depth at the stake. On pace for a 400" season. This is literally approaching western skiing.

 

[Tonyr]

Stowe can be as fun as any place out west with that much snow. Congrats!

 

[Zand]

Starting to get worn out! Only been down the S-53 traverse to those woods twice today. For some reason I've been hyper focused on skiing Upper Liftline and National Drop In since those are never open, and then the left side of Liftline still has a lot of deep pow. Some great woods lines over on that side as well, but I've also for some reason taken many runs on Liftline and National proper and been bashing pow bumps all day. I can ski glades for 8 hours straight but this bumping is getting to me.

 

[Zand]

This happened around 9:30 this morning...I was on the Gondy at the time with a patroller in the cabin and it stopped for a while, then I heard them call out on the radio to look for a gondola panel on upper Waterfall. The patroller was like "well we're definitely a Vail mountain!"

 

[kingslug]

Looks so much better than what I dealt with today...
Monday total shitshow....

 

[Zand]

I talked to multiple folks on the lifts and at the bar who have been to Utah in the past couple weeks and are glad to be back.


Sun made a brief appearance but it has since clouded back up and started snowing again.

 

[kingslug]

Feel like hopping on a plane...
But I think PC is making me that way..
Lcc has been racking it up...
But I do miss chin clip woods..